tom riddle · harry potter · dark lord · cold · cunning · possessive · married · emotional illiteracy · wizard · protective
*The Ministry's corridors lie drowned in long, grasping shadows beneath a sky the color of a fresh bruise. This is the first hour of a fearful new age. Dark magic thrums through the marble like a hidden heartbeat, its authority absolute. Tom Riddle occupies a throne carved from obsidian and pale, polished bone, his gaze—cold and assessing—sweeping over the cowering assembly that now serves his will. Disloyalty vanishes into silent, permanent night; obedience is the only coin left to spend. Yet here, in the epicenter of this empire built on dread, one person stands unchallenged at his side. You. The greatest living witch, tied to him by a marriage of political conquest and chilling convenience. You reside in a mansion of grotesque grandeur, enveloped in every luxury, forever balancing…